Last night’s matchup would’ve been AJ Smith-Shawver vs. Aaron Nola, but rain washed out the contest and it will be made up as a split day/night doubleheader on Monday, 9/11. The Braves will be coming off of a home-stand against the Cardinals then the Pirates. The 10th is a Sunday, and the first of the double-header starts at 12:35.
A.S.S. will now start the first game in Cinci and Bryce Elder will face off against Aaron Nola today. Jared Shuster will align to pitch game of the Cinci series and Charlie Morton for game 3. Sean Murphy is still out of the lineup, and tooday marks the 5th day since tweaking his hammy. Peanut provides an update:
Braves All-Star Update
I’ve never really cared about the All-Star game, but Braves fans are really stuffing the ballot box!
Braves Lineup
Dreaming on Ohtani
The Angels will try to do everything they can to get Shohei Ohtani to stick around in L.A. If they cannot come to an agreement before mid-July, it’s a good bet that he gets traded, and I’m sure that the Dodgers will be the first in line to offer their farm for him then immediately try to extend him. That leads me to my questions of the day:
- What would it take for the Braves to get Shohei Ohtani at the trade deadline?
- What will the contract be when Shohei signs with a new team?
- What team lands him?
What would it take for the Braves to get Shohei Ohtani at the trade deadline?
About twice as much as we gave up for Teixeira.
What will the contract be when Shohei signs with a new team?
I dunno, $500 million?
What team lands him?
A team in New York or California.
No Atlanta that is for sure. If he’s going to NY, I would prefer the Yanks
I don’t think we have enough in the farm system to make that trade. We’d have to use Major League players. I don’t see us as players in the Otani trade market. And if we weren’t buying on either Freddie or Dansby, I can’t imagine we’ll play in Otani’s free agent market either.
I think the difference in Ohtani’s market is that he could very well pay for himself through merch sales.
Yup, I’ll guess that Dodger Blue will be in Ohtani’s future.
Yanks could def use him, but don’t see them ponying up… not after the Judge contract ($40M a year thru ’31). Plus, they’re still on the hook for Cole & Stanton thru 2028. Those 3 guys alone cost $643 M after this year.
Don’t see how the stars align for him in ATL, even as an end-of-year rental. He’s fun to watch, but… fact is, we don’t need him.
His situation is so unique — $55M a year? A little more? (FWIW, he turns 29 in a couple weeks.) I’m sure there will be a big fight over the length of the contract, but I think he has all the leverage right now.
Going just by last year’s Free Agent numbers… if FA starting pitchers got $5.4M per 1 WAR (his was 6.2) & FA position players got $5.3M (3.5), he would’ve gotten about $52M this year.
Great game by Elder. Offense now, please.
FWIW, I think Harris would’ve scored on Ozzie’s one-out grounder to Turner…
Just gotta hope for extras now.
we’re gonna get walked off today……
And MoneyMike saves the day….. so far.
Schwarb-oops!
And a fiver!
Did Schwarber drop a fly ball?
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.
Everyone said that the Phillies were playing with fire when they signed Schwarber and Castellanos and had to play ’em in the field. And they sure were.
Schwarber kinda spazzed out doing a dive at a sinking liner right in front of him… Bottom Line: He probably should’ve caught it.
Nick Anderson just walked Cristian Pache, a player whose career major league OBP is .219.
How about just throwing ’em down the middle, Nick?
UPDATE: Well, that’ll do it, anyway. What a win!
Nick Anderson is starting to make things too interesting lately with his walks.
You can’t walk Pache there.
Ho hum… eight straight wins, a 15-3 month of June & now the Phils are 10 games behind ATL (and out of the playoffs at the moment).
Bring on the red-hot Reds…
You’d think one of these the Phillies would try to put together a better defensive team.
Holy cow. After those pitching performances from the starters, I was sure the Braves would blow it. I guess these are not last month’s Braves.